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  • Zee Salaam launches new show – Jai Hind Janab

    Zee Salaam launches new show – Jai Hind Janab

    New Delhi: 24×7 Urdu News channel Zee Salaam is all set to launch a new weekly show Jai Hind Janab which will air every Sunday at 8 PM.

    The channel has strengthened its place in the Urdu genre with its consistent news coverage and reporting.

    “Zee Salaam has always taken stand for soldiers of our nation and has strongly put forward their concerns in front of the government on all the important platforms so that their voices are heard by the authority and the nation. The new show has bee  launched with the same philosophy of patriotism & inclusiveness,” said the channel in a statement on Monday.

    Zee Media’s Cluster three CEO, Dileep Tiwari said “This is a great initiative of Zee Salaam. The nation should remain indebted to the sacrifice and service of the soldiers and through this show the channel gives the respect and honour which they deserve .”

    Zee Salaam editor, Irfan Sheikh said, “The country is very valuable to us and we always put our nation first. Through this special show, we recognize, honour & offer tribute to the brave hearts. The subsequent episodes will feature the real heroes from our society who have gone out of their way to immensely contribute to society or have helped those who were in need which will cover military, para-military, police, doctors and other frontline warriors.” 

    This show is based on the nation’s first philosophy and aims to motivate every individual to work towards prosperity, restoration, and progress of the nation in his or her own capability.

  • Aalami Sahara is now Aalami Samay

    Aalami Sahara is now Aalami Samay

    MUMBAI: It was launched three years ago but came to a standstill barely months after coming into existence. However, with an experienced new editor Syed Faisal Ali coming on board fifteen months ago, Aalami Sahara, Sahara Samay’s Urdu news channel, decided to give it shot in the arm.

    For starters, the entire network dropped the name ‘Sahara’ from its channels, changing the earlier Aalami Sahara to the new Aalami Samay.
    Syed Ali has amitious plans to take the channel to the Middle East and Gulf countries

    In a bid to refresh its content and reach out to more Urdu speaking people, six more bureaus in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna and Hyderabad were added to the previous two in Delhi and Srinagar.

    The hunt for good journalists fluent in reading and writing Urdu has been on for the past three to four months. “There are not many people who are from an Urdu background and even if they are, they are not happy to work in an Urdu channel,” says Faisal Ali.

    As of now, each bureau has one journalist, two camera units and four stringers and the search is on for more journalists.

    While most of the channel’s viewership comes from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar and Assam, Ali plans to take the channel to the Middle East and Gulf countries to get more people hooked on to it.

    “A lot of Indians in the Middle East view the channel because there are a lot of NRIs there who have an affinity to India,” claims Ali.

    New programmes have been launched on the channel such as Takraan (aired every Sunday at 8: 30 pm) that see Ali conduct interviews with leaders from various fields. Renowned personalities such as Kapil Sibal, Arvind Kejriwal and Gulzar Dehelvi have already appeared on the show. Parvaaz is a weekly travel show while Halaat e Haazra is the daily news bulletin. Another new show called Farsh se Arsh Taq will be aired in November that will showcase ‘rags to riches’ stories of normal people.

    The channel also wants to focus on international stories coming from the Middle East, Gulf and America. Aina-e-Aalam is a 15 minute bulletin at 9:00 pm that shows international stories. Aalami Business gives an insight into business opportunities in India as well as the Gulf countries.

    The channel is trying to help minority Muslims in India to have a dedicated channel. “We want to brand the channel on the lines of Al Jazeera,” says Ali.

    Marketing has already begun in force. About 10 lakh leaflets were distributed in various mosques on Friday as well as during Eid to attract people’s attention. An Urdu media conclave is also on the cards in December for which the Sahara board has approved the proposal by Ali.

    In terms of advertisers, it is still to get some big ones on board as only local advertisers are with the channel for now. Ali is however optimistic of getting big names such as Etihad Airways.

    It claims to be the only Urdu channel that gives news all through the day while its competitors like Zee Salaam and ETV Urdu provide infotainment. An Urdu channel’s market is smaller than other regional channels. Zee Salaam was launched in 2010 while ETV Urdu was launched much earlier in 2001.

    The number of Urdu channels in the country is quite low. Apart from these three there is Munsif TV, a news channel from Hyderabad and DD Urdu which is also infotainment. Remaining Urdu channels are all religious.

    With this vibrancy that is trying to make the channel stand out from the rest let’s hope the channel’s second stint is much better.

  • Sahara finally launches Urdu news channel Aalami Sahara

    Sahara finally launches Urdu news channel Aalami Sahara

     NEW DELHI: Claiming the highest readership for its three Urdu publications, Sahara India Pariwar today launched its first exclusive Urdu news television channel Aalami Sahara aimed at reaching four million viewers in India and manifold eyeballs in 53 other countries.

    The channel was launched at a function here this evening in the presence of a large number of dignitaries, amid a poetry recitation by Munnawar Rana from his book ‘Muhajir-nama’ and a comic presentation by stand-up comedian Raju Srivastava.

    This 24X7 news channel will not only reach countries with large concentrations of Urdu speaking people including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh but also those with large Indian diaspora like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Brunei, Jordan, Behrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Macau, Maldives, Fiji, Myanmar, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Singapore, Australia and others.

    Although Doordarshan and Eenadu already have Urdu channels, they telecast programmes that are not necessarily news, according to a Sahara Group source. He added that this was the first privately owned Urdu news channel in the country.

    The  channel Aalami Sahara will be beamed via Asiasat 3S 105.5 degree East on downlink frequency of 4020 MHz with horizontal polarization and a symbol rate of 27250 Msps.

    Though group head Subrata Roy Sahara was not present, he sent a message that was telecast on the occasion. Those present included Salman Khursheed, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, Delhi Minister Haroon Yusuf, veteran journalist Zafar Agha, former cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin, and Sahara Editor Upendra Rai, apart from poet Munnawar Rana.

    Rai said he had left the Sahara Group but had not been able to give it up completely and therefore returned to it. He introduced Rana and ‘Muhajir-nama’ which has been published in Devnagari by the Sahara Group.  
         
      Sahara sources claimed that a total of more than 90 million people speak Urdu in India, of which 40 million are television viewers. Aalami Sahara would voice regional, national and international issues with fairness and precision.

    Sahara News Network already publishes Roznama Rashtriya Sahara (an Urdu daily), Aalami Sahara (a weekly magazine) and Bazm-e-Sahara (a monthly tabloid). Roznama publishes 16 editions from 10 centers for its 3.15 million readers. There are 5,25,000 million readers of the Urdu weekly, while there are 500,000 for Bazm-e-Sahara (Urdu monthly). Earlier, Rozanama went online in October 2010. This was the first time when a complete Urdu newspaper and magazine were made available on Internet.

    Sahara News Network has one round-the-clock, free to air, national Hindi news channel ‘Samay’ and a bouquet of 36 city specific regional news channels under the brand name ‘Sahara Samay’. Sahara’s News Media is equipped with over 1600 V-Sats for News collection and has 50 Bureaus and 1000 correspondents across the globe.